Rothesay Stuart Wortley: Difference between revisions

| birth_place = [[Highcliffe Castle]], Dorset[[Hampshire]], England

Major '''Rothesay Nicholas Montagu Stuart Wortley''',{{refn|group=note|Both Fox-Davies<ref name="FoxDavies">{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/stream/armorialfamilies02foxd#page/1380/mode/2up |title=Armorial families : A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour |first=Arthur Charles |last=Fox-Davies |authorlink=Arthur Charles Fox-Davies |year=1929 |edition=7th |location=London |publisher=[[Hurst & Blackett]] |volume=2 |page=1381 |accessdateaccess-date=1 May 2016}}</ref> and Burkes<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Mosley |editor-first=Charles |title=Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage |edition=107th |volume=2 |page=2138 |location=Wilmington, Delaware |publisher=Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd. |year=2003 |url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p5230.htm |accessdateaccess-date=1 May 2016}}</ref> give his birth name as '''Nicholas Rothesay Montagu-Stuart-Wortley'''. However, during his military service the ''[[London Gazette]]'' lists him as '''R[othesay] N[icholas] Montagu-Stuart-Wortley''', which suggests that he may have changed it on enlisting. His books were published under the name '''Rothesay Stuart Wortley'''.}} {{post-nominals|country=GBR|MC}} (9 January 1892 – 29 December 1926) was a British [[First World War]] [[flying aceI]] credited withsoldier, [[ListRoyal ofFlying WorldCorps]] Warfighter Ipilot acesand crediteda withjournalist 6and victories|six aerial victories]]author.<ref name="theaerodrome">{{cite web |url=http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/england/stuart_wortley.php |title=Rothesay Nicholas Montagu Stuart Wortley |work=The Aerodrome |year=2014 |accessdateaccess-date=7 August 2014}}</ref>

StuartNicholas Rothesay Montagu Stuart-Wortley was born at [[Highcliffe Castle]], [[Hampshire]] (now in [[Dorset]], on 9 January 1892, the first child and only son of Major-General the Honourable [[Edward James Montagu-Stuart-Wortley]], and his wife Violet (née Guthrie).<ref name="FoxDavies"/> He was educated at [[Eton College|Eton]] and [[Oxford University]],<ref name="theaerodrome"/> winningwhere anhe Honours inread [[History]]. On 25 March 1912 he wasreceived commissioneda commission as a second[[Subaltern lieutenant(military)|Subaltern]] in the [[British Army]]'s [[Hampshire Yeomanry]], of the ([[Territorial Force]]).<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=28620 |date=21 June 1912 |page=4466}}</ref>

On 5 August 1914, the day after the [[United Kingdom]] declared war on Germany, Stuart-Wortley was appointed an [[aide-de-camp]] to serve on the personal staff of his father, [[General Officer Commanding]] of the [[46th (North Midland) Division]].<ref>{{London Gazette |date=28 August 1914 |supp=y |issue=28885 |pages=6885–6886 |nolink=yes}}</ref>

On 12 February 1917 Stuart-Wortley was transferred from the [[British Army]] to [[Royal Flying Corps]],<ref>{{London Gazette |date=15 June 1917 |supp=y |issue=30134 |page=5971 |nolink=yes}}</ref> and after completing flight training was commissioned as a [[Flying Officer]] on 12 June 1917.<ref>{{London Gazette |date=3 July 1917 |supp=y |issue=30166 |page=6678 |nolink=yes}}</ref> On 30 June 1917 he was promoted to the rank of Captaincaptain, with seniority from 1 June 1916.<ref>{{London Gazette |date=13 July 1917 |supp=y |issue=30185 |page=7115 |nolink=yes}}</ref> He was posted as a pilot to join No.22 Squadron R.F.C., a [[fighter aircraft|fighter]] unit flying [[Bristol F.2 Fighter|Bristol F.2's]] two-seaters. He gained his first aerial victories on 6 September 1917 by driving down two German aircraft. He destroyed two enemy fighters on 22 September 1917, and captured another on 17 October 1917. His sixth and final victory came on 28 January 1918, when he sent a German fighter down in flames.<ref name="theaerodrome"/>{{sfnp|Shores|Franks|Guest|1990|p=354}}

He was appointed as Squadron Commander with the temporary rank of Majormajor on 1 July 1918,<ref>{{London Gazette |date=16 July 1918 |issue=30798 |page=8338 |nolink=yes}}</ref> with No.44 Training Depot Station at [[Bicester Airfield|RAF Bicester]]<ref>{{cite book |title=The Royal Flying Corps 1912–1918 in Oxfordshire |first=Peter |last=Wright |origyearorig-year=1985 |location=[[Peterborough]] |publisher=[[Cross and Cockade|Cross & Cockade International]] |year=2015 |edition=2nd revised}}</ref> until September 1918. He then returned to France where he commanded [[No. 88 Squadron RAF|No.88 Squadron, Royal Air Force]] until the end of the war in November 1918.<ref name="theaerodrome"/>{{sfnp|Shores|Franks|Guest|1990|p=354}}

In 1919 Stuart Wortley married the Canadian opera singer Marie-Louise Martin,<ref name="FoxDavies"/> (known professionally as Louise Edvina)<ref>{{cite webencyclopedia |url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/louise-edvina-emc/ |title=Louise Edvina |workencyclopedia=The Canadian Encyclopedia |year=2016 |accessdateaccess-date=1 May 2016}}</ref> and worked as an aviation journalist until his death in the south of France from [[diabetes]] on 29 December 1926 at the age of 34.<ref name="theaerodrome"/>{{sfnp|Shores|Franks|Guest|1990|p=354}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://thepeerage.com/p5230.htm#i52294 |title=Major Nicholas Rothesay Stuart-Wortley |first=Darryl |last=Lundy |publisher=thepeerage.com |year=2014 |accessdateaccess-date=7 August 2014}}</ref>

Along with Canada's top First World War I ace, Colonel [[Billy Bishop]], heStuart-Wortley co-authored an adventure novel entitled ''The Flying Squad'', which was published in 1927.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Flying Squad |first1=Billy |last1=Bishop |first2=Rothesay |last2=Stuart Wortley |location=New York |publisher=George H. Doran Company |date=1927}}</ref> His own novel ''Letters from a Flying Officer'', a fictionalised account of his own experiences, was published in 1928.<ref>{{cite book |title=Letters from a Flying Officer |first=Rothesay |last=Stuart Wortley |location=London |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=1928}}</ref> A book of his short stories ''Tales of the Air'', was published in 1932.<ref>{{cite book |title=Tales of the Air |first=Rothesay |last=Stuart Wortley |location=London |publisher=University of London Press |year=1932}}</ref>

* {{cite book |ref=harv |first1=Christopher F. |last1=Shores |first2=Norman |last2=Franks |authorlink2=Norman Franks |first3=Russell F. |last3=Guest |title=Above the Trenches: a Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the British Empire Air Forces 1915–1920 |location=London, UK |publisher=Grub Street |year=1990 |isbn=978-0-948817-19-9 |lastauthorampname-list-style=yesamp}}

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